The traditional beliefs, legends, customs, proverbs, riddles, music, dance, stories, and other lore of various cultures which were passed down orally from person to person through the ages.
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Hosts a complete month-by-month record of all the posts made to the discussion-list, from 1990 to the present.
Article by Alby Stone discussing the hand-mill as an image of the cosmos.
Essays and resources about folklore, traditions, myths, legends, symbols and holidays.
Folklore researcher, providing extensive resources on Germanic myths, legends and sagas, and Indo-European folk and fairy tales.
Online encyclopedia about mythology, folklore, and legend. Containing deities, fabulous creatures and places, with images and stories.
Myths, legends, superstitions, customs and proverbs, by A. W. Moore (1891), e-text from a Manx Note Book.
Recalling forgotten history and recording the new. UK based.
Folklore related blog posts and facts every Thursday.
English-language archives of an informative Baltic Folklore journal published by the Folk Belief and Media Group of the Estonian Literary Museum. Material about Estonian shamanism, urban legends, ethnomusicology, popular calendar data, and general folk belief.
A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, established in 1965.
Encyclopedic resource describing and illustrating folkloric talismans and lucky charms from around the world, including horseshoe, swastika, four-leaf clover, rabbit foot, raccoon penis bone, hamsa hand, John the Conqueror root, scarab beetle, and black cat bone.
Tales of gods, creatures, ancient lore, mythical realms and epic adventures from diverse cultures worldwide.
Article that contrasts the true remains of Pagan origins in the folk customs of England with those customs created or exaggerated through "paganisation" by Victorian romantic authors.
Journal of the Estonian National Museum, publishing short articles on ethnographical issues. Content in Estonian and English.
Focuses on contemporary grassroots cultures. Festival information, recordings, events, and resources.
A compilation of superstitions and taboos around from variety of cultures.
Collected and arranged by Lady Augusta Gregory (1920), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
Tales of gods, creatures, ancient lore, mythical realms and epic adventures from diverse cultures worldwide.
Online encyclopedia about mythology, folklore, and legend. Containing deities, fabulous creatures and places, with images and stories.
Focuses on contemporary grassroots cultures. Festival information, recordings, events, and resources.
Essays and resources about folklore, traditions, myths, legends, symbols and holidays.
Folklore related blog posts and facts every Thursday.
Recalling forgotten history and recording the new. UK based.
A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, established in 1965.
A compilation of superstitions and taboos around from variety of cultures.
Myths, legends, superstitions, customs and proverbs, by A. W. Moore (1891), e-text from a Manx Note Book.
English-language archives of an informative Baltic Folklore journal published by the Folk Belief and Media Group of the Estonian Literary Museum. Material about Estonian shamanism, urban legends, ethnomusicology, popular calendar data, and general folk belief.
Encyclopedic resource describing and illustrating folkloric talismans and lucky charms from around the world, including horseshoe, swastika, four-leaf clover, rabbit foot, raccoon penis bone, hamsa hand, John the Conqueror root, scarab beetle, and black cat bone.
Article by Alby Stone discussing the hand-mill as an image of the cosmos.
Hosts a complete month-by-month record of all the posts made to the discussion-list, from 1990 to the present.
Article that contrasts the true remains of Pagan origins in the folk customs of England with those customs created or exaggerated through "paganisation" by Victorian romantic authors.
Folklore researcher, providing extensive resources on Germanic myths, legends and sagas, and Indo-European folk and fairy tales.
Journal of the Estonian National Museum, publishing short articles on ethnographical issues. Content in Estonian and English.
Collected and arranged by Lady Augusta Gregory (1920), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
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